For accountability, transparency etc. actions such as creating and deleting and announcing new issues should be logged.
Marking this as low priority for now as it would be better to focus on input validation for now as it's likely that it might create problems in the future if we add improperly validated data to logs.
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Implement logging for newsletter actions | mediawiki/extensions/Newsletter | master | +220 -95 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duplicate | Qgil | T125545 Phabricator Q&A session for Community Liaisons | |||
| Resolved | Qgil | T116025 Goal: Align Community Liaison and Developer Relations project management practices | |||
| Resolved | Qgil | T119387 Community Liaison and Developer Relation quarterly goals for January - March 2016 | |||
| Declined | None | T104131 Exporting existing newsletter to the Newsletter extension | |||
| Resolved | Addshore | T110170 Goal: Deploy Newsletter extension in Wikimedia | |||
| Resolved | Qgil | T110642 Implement all the features required for running the Newsletter extension in Wikimedia | |||
| Resolved | Parent5446 | T110552 Implement logging in Newsletter |
Are we talking about one log for each Newsletter and then a log for the extension (creation of newsletter etc)? Where can users see these logs?
<qgil> Maybe we can start with a common log somewhere?
<qgil> I don't think this is critical for users on their day to dat
<qgil> then, if users want more, we can think of more
<qgil> but at least we solve the hurdle for deployment
<qgil> I agree logging is needed
<Glaisher> qgil: I was thinking just a normal Special:Log-type log?
<qgil> Glaisher, works for me.
<qgil> agreed?
<Glaisher> yeah, that should work I think
<tinajohnson> agreed
<tinajohnson> Before or after deployement ?
<qgil> I'd say before, if it is not rocket science
<tinajohnson> hehe, alright then :)
This would include adding a wfDebugLog after each of these actions, and thereby can be a pretty good first task. If you think this would be a possible Google-Code-In-2015 task, I can mentor.
No, this is about on-wiki logging, not server-side logging so this is not simple as that. I'm not sure about this being eligible for GCI though.
Change 280887 had a related patch set uploaded (by Parent5446):
Implement logging for newsletter actions